Dr. Tiffiany Howard is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She earned her joint doctorate in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2006 and joined the UNLV faculty in 2008. Her fields of specialization include international security, immigration and refugee policies, and political violence, conflict and terrorism. She has been awarded notable nationally recognized visiting scholar and research fellow positions, including an APSA Centennial Center Visiting Scholar Position which she declined. She is also a former Black Mountain Institute Faculty Fellow (Spring 2015); Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Scholar, DARPA Research Fellow, and the 2013 Barrick Scholar Award Recipient. Dr. Howard is also the author of The Tragedy of Failure (Praeger Security International/ABC-CLIO, 2010) and Failed States and the Origins of Violence (Ashgate, 2014), the co-author of Sex, Power and Politics: Exploring Gender Roles, Identities and Influence throughout History (Palgrave: Forthcoming 2016), and series co-editor of Migration, Demography and Environmental Change: Global Challenges (University of Nevada Press). Other notable peer reviewed publications appear in Civil Wars, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Immigrants and Minorities.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

with Nerses Kopalyan. Sex, Power and Politics: Exploring Gender Roles, Identities and Influence throughout History. Palgrave: March 2016.

Howard, Tiffiany. “Afro-Latinos in the United States.” People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA. October 2016.

“Beyond the Tragedy of Failure: Exploring the Utility of Existing Models of State Failure in an Effort to Develop a More Precise Typology and More Accurate Predictions of State Collapse” 9th Annual Conference on Politics and International Affairs, (Athens, Greece), June 2011. Book of Abstracts. Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos. http://www.atiner.gr/abstracts/2011POL-ABST.pdf

Research Fellow-Integrated Crisis Early Warning Systems Project at the University of Georgia- Violence Intra-national Political Conflict and Terrorism (VIPCAT) Research Laboratory (Funded by Lockheed Martin and DARPA)-(2008:30,000)